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Tiare is macerated in coconut oil to make something called Monoï. I have read it's used as a natural remedy in Polynesia, and as treatment for sunburn. If it were just Gardenia tahitensis and coconut...

If you want more than 100ml try
www.mistralni.co.uk
They do 1litre for £18 or 5 for £32

Arctander says guiaicwood should smell 'delicately sweet, rosy-woody ... but it ... may have a "smoked ham" odor. He goes on 'it is conceivable that this odor, which was never reported before WWII,...

Can't say I've smelled any of them except Oud Wood which seems completely synthetic, and no way worth 230€ or whatever ripoff price it was asking.

If you want to get off the beaten track there are other places to go besides the touristic shops in the centre. There is a Guerlain shop at Sèvres-Babylone, which is across the road from Le Bon...

I would say leave your frags at home and bring your cc.

I seem to remember getting an oily bland type of rosy profile from palmarosa when I was doing materials 101.
Arctander wrote (in 1961) that it's a 'sweet floral-rosy odor [with] various undertones...

Whooo, yeah I was forgetting that Mouchoir de Monsieur

Do tell... what did?

Pour un Homme de Caron. Being the one that started fragrance for men (Jicky was originally meant to be a feminine) it must have had a near monopoly.

The Osmothèque uses brown bottles topped off with argon which are stored in wine coolers at 12°C.

What I did on my Holidays

I will be in Rennes - the capital of Brittany and I'm gonna wear Mitsouko.

The Parfum has a clunky vibe which is why I give it a *-*-* rating : fruit purée, fougère, spiky woods.

If not Yatagan then the more refined version Devin, but I still agree with Cook.bot on Aromatics Elixir.

Still waiting for L'Heure Bleue Extrait...

You could try a lower grade of alpha-Terpineol which has a disinfectant type odour with pine and distilled lime oil aspects.

This might be of interest :
https://www.perfumerflavorist.com/fragrance/rawmaterials/natural/Perspectives-on-Citrus-488747231.html
but you may have to sign up to read the whole article (it's...

Vintage Je Reviens (1932) and to a lesser extent modern formula Blue Grass (1934). These two depression era aldehydics are more about domestic propriety than sexy seductiveness, hence metal polish...

I tried it on a smelling strip and didn't like it, but that was back in the summer and I don't remember much about it now.

Who was the greatest composer? Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Schubert, Chopin, Mahler, Stravinsky, Debussy, Phillip Glass? What a pointless question...

Forget Fragonard, it's for tourists. Go for Nicolaï, there is one near the Picasso museum and Michel Almairac's boutique Parle moi de parfum is not far away either. If not there is also Marie...

Hang around the flea markets of Paris long enough and you may get lucky...

Soap actually doesn't smell soapy at all. I use an unperfumed vegetable soap made by Le Petit Marseiliais and it smells lightly, as RSG says, of fats or lye.

What I personally define as a soapy...

By Kilian's Smoke for the Soul is a credible go at Afghani Black.

There is no lavender in your formula, have you tried that?

Hmmm, something's up with the tablet...

Why is Basenotes repeatedly asking for cookie consent? And why do I have to sign in every time?

Curious to know what violet lead is...

Anything remind you of Jo Malone's Lime, Basil & Mandarin?

By chance I discovered Milky Musk by Michel Almairac today, released under his own label Parle moi de parfum. It's described as sandalwood and musks but thats only the base, it's actually a fig and...

Along with the burning of clothes using fur, Burberry were separately forced by Coty to destroy old perfume stocks as part of a tie up with the American giant.
...

Evidently its been redesigned for phones. The new layout only makes sense in portrait mode. Regrettably the content is still the same.

Angeline Neo has written a passing summary of what's been going on in perfumery of late but it would be easy to miss the crucial point about niche, or more accurately indie, it frees perfumers from...

https://www.fragrantica.com/perfume/Prada/Prada-Amber-Pour-Homme-Prada-Man--1044.html
Maybe this will get you started.

http://www.basenotes.net/ID10211641.html

Leaving the shop and taking a walk around outside helps to clear the mind of odour impressions as well as resting the nose. It also allows you to get away from a pushy SA if necessary.

The very early ones were pressurised like an aerosol, you can tell them by looking - the pipe is thicker than normal.

87126

Smells pretty good too, in a Femme kind of way.

Oops...

87060

Calkin R.R. & Jellinek J.S. Perfumery : Practice and Principles, New York, Wiley-Interscience, 1994

You're not the only one who's fed up with what's going on at Prada perfumes :
http://uk.fashionnetwork.com/news/Exclusive-Prada-ends-perfume-license-with-Puig,1000318.html#.W22O2dSLSt8

What I'm wearing at the time.

Citron Noir

Yes, me too, but there's no chance of me getting it. The selling price on another site is $450 US!

Apparently it smells like a variation of No.5

Somebody on Fragrantica has recently offered to swap a bottle of Chanel No 46. Has anybody ever heard of this so called "unicorn"? You can see the photos of it here...

Yes, it has closed down.

It's the sale season in France and walking past a perfume shop the other day I noticed they had no less than three Pour un Homme flankers on offer. The 2014 Millésime version, Sport and the Parfum....

[Alaïa would] work on anybody who'd pose for Helmut Newton...


Deneuve, Kinski, Loomis, even Alice Springs, but not everybody - I was wrong, he even shot the odious Le Pen...
(Is it permitted to...

It'd work on anybody who'd pose for Helmut Newton...

https://www.perfumestheguide.com/sample-excerpt

Sewer rats stampeding away from the smelling strip... :lolk:

There's an Israeli called thefifthg who does swaps on Fragrantica. You could try asking him.

Hi everybody, the poll is closed and the results are clear.

Out of the three options available: roughly 20% voted for a price rise, 80% voted for a reduction in bottle size, and the option of...

Last chance to have your say on reformulation, please vote now if you haven't already - the poll closes on the 17th.

Well, no perfume house wants to be sued if somebody comes out in a rash, same as no restaurant wants to give people gastro.

But whether it's in the public interest to restrict a molecule just...

Hi everybody, the poll is still open, please vote and make your voice heard. Thanks.

The best jeans are the ones that fit you best.

Well, I can only assume that many of Roja Dove's customers, in particular those who patronise his boutique at the top of Harrods, must be of the 'if you have to ask the price you can't afford it'...

Would less than 30ml be a good idea?

remik wrote : 'Can you imagine the cost of redesigning bottles to suddenly have 98ml or 95ml instead of 100ml, retooling production lines for bottles, retooling production lines for bottle filling,...

I'm canvassing opinion in the hope that somebody in the industry may notice and take account of our views.

Nastka : Yes I agree on both points, I don't buy too many FB's these days, so I don't know what's happening in the current market place but Bulgari Black was released in 75ml a good twenty years...

An interesting article has popped up on the BBC website. It talks about the way food packaging has shrunk over the past few years. Many people don't notice when the amount of cereal in the box...

Rush fM , as far as I can make out is based on Timbersilk and cedar, and a lot of lavender, cypress and incense.
The structure is probably derived from Le Mâle.

If you take a diy approach you...

Why not ask Australian Perfume Junkies?

I smell it in the night and it wakes me up, so not any more.

Yeah the price.
Unusual number that.
Precisely one tenth of the number of those who died in a Biblical plague, before Moses stopped it by burning incense.
Numbers 16 & 17
Surely some coincidence.

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Don't know Tigress, but definitely this...

White Diamonds is OK but it was made by Carlos Benaim, a top flight perfumer. The others don't appear to have any attribution and were therefore probably the work of technicians. Also, it doesn't...

Hello everybody
I have Who Knew to swap, and some other stuff probably in due course.
Anyone in the EU interested?
Can't do the US or the UK because of mailing restrictions, sorry.

L'Heure Bleue, I adore this with a passion, and Opium because it was the first great perfume of my era. No.5 because it's there, Blue Grass because it's my mum's, Fendi - a rare ambrosia, Beautiful...

Hi there,

What are your favourite classic perfumes for women?
By classic I mean anything before the nineties when perfumery went all watery and clean.

I would be interested to know what still...

You could macerate a vanilla pod in ethanol, or if not Ndali sell the same thing. I bought mine in Waitrose.

Where did you get it? Did you get a till receipt? Can you take it back and exchange it?

Has my Timbersilk gone bad? Under the pale and sweet crunchy theme there is an oily rag note with a nuance of black rubber. Good Scents gives a shelf life of two years under proper storage...

Hi everybody, this is interesting...
http://perfumeshrine.blogspot.fr/2008/12/myth-debunking-1-what-are-aldehydes-how.html
The start is a bit difficult but when she gets into it there is some...

"As we move into the 1960's and 1970's, nitromusks are banned and white "detergent" musks such as Galaxolide begin to be used. The thick waxy texture of the older perfumes changes into the cleaner,...

First of all I haven't smelled Gucci Bloom so I can't vote for that. Poison Girl seems to be little different from Black Opium so that's out. Gabrielle has a rather nasty spiky woods top that I don't...

Go on then

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-41339121

Try it again in a few weeks. It needs time to macerate before really coming through.

Are you smelling it pure or dilute? The absolute needs to be diluted at 5 or 10% max in perfumers alcohol before it will open itself up to your nose.

Try www.eBay.com. You might even find the real thing...

Neon Graffiti

I Wonder if the scent is as crass as the name...

Its called L'ecrivain d'odeurs and this edition is in French only. It's published on the 5th of October in France and costs 17€.
auparfum have it for sale in their shop...

He's got a book coming out soon.

Speaking personally, I love wearing L'Heure Bleue Eau de Parfum.
I'm a man by the way.

Old Cabochard was outstanding, the modern one an outrage.

Grès is often found in discount stores that sell cheap clothes. I have sampled one or two but I wouldn't consider buying any of their stuff. It (and 95% of the perfumes in those shops) generally...

Definitely NOT Eau de Cologne de Caron..

Interesting article, thanks. I'd like to add my own observation; there are two perfumeries in the street below our apartment, a Marionnaud and Beauty Success, a small retailer that I've never seen...

Me, I must be an old fashioned kind of guy, 'cos the only thing I can bear when enduring the inside of a packed commuter train where its going up into the forties is a misting of crisp lemony Bien...

Puces de Vanves. There is a reliable vendor called Cathy who sells vintage bottles and miniatures, and she speaks English.

Poll results show that accessing Basenotes on the move by phone is as equally popular as from home or work station.

Tablets are 40% less reported, there is also Kindle and someone even accesses BN...

Hi everybody, the poll is still running, all votes are welcome...

Thanks for your response, I will include your vote in the final analysis of the stats released at the end of the poll.

Hello everybody, I'm doing a poll on what type of device people use to access Basenotes. Feel free to join in using the polling form. You can choose more than one option if you use multiple devices....

According to philosopher Barry Smith some experts believe there are between 22 and 33 sensory functions of the human body.
Find out what he has to say about the fifth and all the others in The...